With all due respect, whose version of history have you read, the winners or the losers? I do remember my high school history teach talking about violent attacks upon those who supported the king of England. A quick search turned up this list of vigilante justice against people loyal to the crown. Some of the incidents described on that page were court-ordered but many other were common folk taking up arms to dispatch loyalists trying to undermine the new country.

Another good essay is this one, at least up until it starts raving about a new revolution. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

-Blast